Are You Wish-Cycling? 10 Simple Tips to Recycle Right
Are you recycling or wish-cycling? You may have no idea what wish-cycling is, but in our desire to be environmentally responsible through diligent recycling, we’ve all succumbed to it at…
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Is Recycling a Waste of Time?
Is recycling a waste of time? I was wondering this very question the other day while reading a Facebook post about recycling plastic. Someone had asked if it was possible…
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Is Banning Plastic Bags the Solution to Our Plastic Problem?
Oddly enough, banning plastic bags is on my mind these days. In a few weeks, New York will join a handful of other states to ban these single-use plastic menaces.…
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Is Plastic Recycling a Red Herring to our Waste Problem?
Last week, I went on a field trip to an incinerator. Yes, you read that right. I’ll get to why I went, but first let me explain why recycling –…
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7 High Impact Green Lifestyle Changes That Help You and the Environment
Which green lifestyle changes have the highest environmental impact? In my opinion, they’re the ones that help shift personal habits but are easy to accomplish. Try one or more of…
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Clothes Recycling: The 5 Best Ways to Do It
Recycling – clothes recycling in particular – has been on my mind recently. We’re moving out of our house of 15 years and it’s shocking to visualize the accumulated mountain…
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5 Common Recycling Myths and the Solutions to Recycle Right
There’s so much confusion about recycling that I thought it would be helpful to write about recycling myths and the solutions to these common misconceptions. So let’s take a look…
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Does Recycling Work? How to Tell and What You Can Do About It
Does recycling work? It’s a complicated question … Let me back up before I tackle that question and ask you first whether you recycle. Do you have a bin of…
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How to Pass a Plastic Bag Ban: 8 Key Lessons
So you’ve made changes in your personal life and you’d like to do more. You can. I did, in 2011, by spearheading and passing a plastic bag ban in my…
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